From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: kbd vs read-key-sequence Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:02:08 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4610139D.3060909@gnu.org> <46112BFB.708010 9@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175695574 26973 80.91.229.12 (4 Apr 2007 14:06:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 14:06:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 04 16:06:03 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HZ679-0007t0-15 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:05:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HZ6AP-0003sP-1G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:08:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HZ69N-0003IA-IV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:07:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HZ69M-0003Hi-Pq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:07:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HZ69M-0003Hb-LY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:07:48 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HZ665-0006gW-Qq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:04:25 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HZ63s-0002cp-G2; Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:02:08 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 13:12:54 +0300) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:69048 Archived-At: > It seems easier, but in fact to DTRT according to the documentation > above means dropping support for Windows 95, 98 and ME, and modifying > ALL system messages to use Unicode, which is major work. I think it is > worth doing that for Emacs 22, because Windows 98 and ME are almost dead > now, and probably will be by the time Emacs 22 s released, and also with > the change of Emacs' internal representation, Unicode fits better. I added an entry to etc/TODO based on this. As I've already said, I think this change would probably be a bad thing. People can try it and see whether it works well enough on the old Windows versions. But if it doesn't, I think it should not be installed.